The original post: /r/amitheasshole by /u/Hopeful_Mammoth_2763 on 2025-02-23 18:37:19.

My parents have always had clashing personalities and it’s common for them to pick fights with each other every single day, even multiple times. I (F17) used to try and calm them down or try and stop the fight, but it’s proved useless as they never listen to me and just continue screaming at each other without achieving anything. Recently after their fights, my mom has been turning to me after my dad leaves and continuing to shout all her complaints to him to me. This has been happening for a couple years or so now, and I don’t really know what to do besides listen. However it really messes with my head sometimes and puts me in a bad mood the rest of the day so today I asked if she could stop turning to me and shouting after their fights.

She called me cold hearted and said I offered no emotional support and started talking about that’s why I don’t go out with friends and my social life. I told her to stop but she kept going on about how I should be trying to help with their marriage if I care/love about my parents. I told her if she really wants help she should at least try talking to him instead of shouting or get a counselor. Despite this she kept saying that if they divorce I’ll feel guilty because I didn’t do anything to fix it and stuff like that, basically saying I needed to save them from divorcing. She was also saying that I don’t understand what a divorce means and that once they divorced I’d regret it or something. But I don’t even know how I would help or if I’m even supposed to do that as their child. AITA for saying there’s nothing I can do to help?